How do Gulf corals beat the heat?
In the summer the gulf waters always became hot
up to 35°c and it's hard for Barrier Reef to living on hot climate. So Prof
Burt taken samples of hump coral send it to lab in Britain to test about how the ability of coral to
adapt to with living in hot water . Through research conducted they fined the
coral symbiosis with Zooxanthellae it's kind of algae that lives inside coral's
tissue and its help coral to feed carbon dioxide for photosynthesis. That helps coral to live longer so co-dependent are the two type that if one
dies the other is powerless to feed itself to stay alive. Without the algae the
corals will struggle on surviving and it won't last more than a week with its
fat reserve. In 2010 the
temperature rises to its top and it was impossible to find any corals on the
water of the gulf between Qatar and UAE. "Although the corals try to find
its way of survival by floating around until they find a rock and attach itself
on it to start a colony".
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References
Olson, M. L. (2012, May
13). How do Gulf corals beat the heat? - The National. Latest and breaking
news | thenational.ae - The National. Retrieved March 4, 2013, from
http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/environment/how-do-gulf-corals-beat-the-heat
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